I took my kids clothes shopping the other day for their birthdays and I think I got some very good deals.  There were a lot of stores that either had a buy one get half off sale or the whole store was 50% off.  In many of the stores, there was only a handful of customers.  So I figured this was just another example of the bad economy affecting the retail stores.

This seemed to be the case until I stepped into the Aeropostale store.  In this store there was a line at least 10 people deep waiting to check out.

The whole store was 50% off just like all the other stores except that this was the busiest store of all that we had seen.  The place was crowded.

So I walked around the store and checked out some of the regular price tags on the shirts and jeans and being the parent that I am and not born in the eighties I thought the prices were little high so it was good to know that all the prices I saw all were going to be at the register.

So as we waited 20 minutes in line to pay for all their new clothes it was nice to know that we were buying $100 worth of clothes for only 50 bucks.  But then not everyone has access to an Aeropostale outlet like we do.  Good thing there is eBay.

As I am writing this out there are currently 11,740 auctions of all kinds of Aeropostale clothes in all price ranges.  Some auctions are for one Aeropostale tee shirt that is NWT or "new with tags" or you can find a lot of 40 garments including tee shirts and jeans.

Either way you can get as good or even better of a deal than I did at the Aeropostale outlet.  Plus you can order from home and get it shipped to you without having to wait and line at the mall.

But if you must shop at that outlet mall, you could even buy an Aeropostale 30% off discount coupon that you can use in the store to save an extra 30% off.

So even though I may not even be cool enough to wear Aeropostale apparel according to my children but I can still save a lot of money by buying their clothes either at an outlet mall or on sites like Ebay.

If you're looking for a place to save on back to school clothes, you can save a lot of money and avoid the crowds by shopping online.  And to me that is pretty cool. I win because I buy discount Aeropostale clothing and the kids win because they look a little cooler. Well as cool as they can having a dad like me.